re: #353 HappyWarrior

Repeated studies show that homes with guns are far more likely to experience accidents with guns than homes without them. Me? I’d frankly rather take a smaller chance I’d be robbed than the bigger chance that I may accidentally be mistaken for an intruder and killed by a loved one. Anyone know the baseball player, Ty Cobb? That’s actually how his father was killed.

I came real close to shooting the son of the landlady where I was staying with my then fiancée.
He was drunk and beating on the door and screaming…and I had no idea who the hell he was. I was off to one side with a carbine demanding just who the fuck he was, and the only thing that saved him was that I was trained to not shoot unless I had a confirmed target.